Deltawing Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Hello, even if I am new here I am one of those users that have used this software for a long time, and yet have not joined the forums until now.Its the first time I have had this kind of problem, and with the hash check, I was thinking it could not happen at all yet it happened today, so I am wondering what went wrong. I am downloading a large file ( dont ask, I wont say what it is anyway ), its composed of 4 iso files (again dont ask), my pc went on the whole night/day and when I came back from work the download was ready (100%). I also found my firewall crashed, (vsmonitor from zonealarm) I usually close it but this time I think I forgot to close it, anyway I left the pc seeding the files I downloaded for quite a while (6 hours I think) I closed utorrent then and when to install the software late at night. The first 3 cd mounted and installed without any problems, the fourth however was showing "this file cant be rcognized or is damaged" warnings, at first I was thinking it was the original file that was damaged, but I found zero comments about any damaged file in the site I downloaded the torrent from, and the file had been up for more than 2 years. So I started to doubt the integrity of the file I had downloaded.I deleted the torrent from utorrent and readded the torrent file ( I always save it), and let the program make a check of the file and well it failed around 92% I think, and started to download again at 92.x %, with the fourth cd at 52% and the third cd at 99.9% ( first and second were 100% so they were good I think).My question is since I left the pc seeding is possible that I uploaded corrupt data, or that someone uploaded corrupt data for me? I know the hash function check should prevent this but I dont know anymore since it failed on me.Any idea of why it happen? or how to prevent it from happening again?.Any help is welcome, Thanks.Edit: OS: windows xp sp2, file system NTFS, firewall: zone alarm 7.0.337.000 (properly configured) Amtivirus: AVG 7.5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrero Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Zone Alarm is the most hated software here in the forums. You mentioned it crashed. I think you should start your bug hunting with ZA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Uninstall ZA and everything will probably be fine. ZA is pretty unstable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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